Working for Oil: Comparative Social Histories of Labor in the Global Oil Industry

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This volume examines the social history of oil workers and investigates how labor relations have shaped the global oil industry during the twentieth century and today. It brings together the work of scholars from a range of disciplines, approaching the social, political, economic and cultural dimensions of oil. The contributors analyze a number of key oil producing regions, including the Americas, the Middle East, Central Asia, the Caucasus, Europe and Africa. Front Matter ....Pages i-x Introduction (Touraj Atabaki, Elisabetta Bini, Kaveh Ehsani)....Pages 1-10 Disappearing the Workers: How Labor in the Oil Complex Has Been Made Invisible (Kaveh Ehsani)....Pages 11-34 Front Matter ....Pages 35-35 The Zero-Sum Game of Early Oil Extraction Relations in Colombia: Workers, Tropical Oil, and the Police State, 1918–1938 (Stefano Tijerina)....Pages 37-67 Fluid History: Oil Workers and the Iranian Revolution (Peyman Jafari)....Pages 69-98 Norwegian Oil Workers: From Rebels to Parters in the Tripartite System (Helge Ryggvik)....Pages 99-130 The Role of Labor in Transforming Nigerian Oil Politics (Andrew Lawrence)....Pages 131-158 The End of “The Good Fight”? Organized Labor and the Petro-nation During the Neoliberalization of the Oil Industry in Ecuador (Gabriela Valdivia, Marcela Benavides)....Pages 159-185 Front Matter ....Pages 187-187 Indian Migrant Workers in the Iranian Oil Industry 1908–1951 (Touraj Atabaki)....Pages 189-226 Cat Crackers and Picket Lines: Organized Labor in US Gulf Coast Oil Refining (Tyler Priest)....Pages 227-256 White-Collar Wildcatters and Wildcat Strikes: Oil Experts, Global Contracts, and the Transformation of Labor in Postwar Houston (Betsy A. Beasley)....Pages 257-284 Heroic “Black Gold”? Working for Oil and Gas in the Western Siberian Oil and Gas Complex of the 1960–1970s (Dunja Krempin)....Pages 285-310 Front Matter ....Pages 311-311 Building an Oil Empire: Labor and Gender Relations in American Company Towns in Libya, 1950s–1970s (Elisabetta Bini)....Pages 313-336 Tapline, Welfare Capitalism, and Mass Mobilization in Lebanon, 1950–1964 (Zachary Davis Cuyler)....Pages 337-368 “Oil Is Our Wet Nurse”: Oil Production and Munayshilar (Oil Workers) in Soviet Kazakhstan (Saulesh Yessenova)....Pages 369-398 Doubly Invisible: Women’s Labor in the US Gulf of Mexico Offshore Oil and Gas Industry (Diane E. Austin)....Pages 399-422 Back Matter ....Pages 423-430